Small caps number characters sizing

When using CSS to make text display as small caps, Opera displays numbers  
(possibly other characters?) at the same size as lower-case characters  
rather than upper case characters, as you'd expect if the text was being  
displayed normally. Other browsers don't do this, so is it a bug or just  

Eik wrote:
> When using CSS to make text display as small caps, Opera displays numbers
> (possibly other characters?) at the same size as lower-case characters
> rather than upper case characters, as you'd expect if the text was being
> displayed normally. Other browsers don't do this, so is it a bug or just
> Opera's way of doing things?

If the font being used has a specific small caps variant that contains
the number characters then they should be used. Otherwise I think it's
just Opera's way of doing it.

   Steve

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:48:23 +0100, Steve Pugh <steve.grumpy@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> If the font being used has a specific small caps variant that contains
> the number characters then they should be used. Otherwise I think it's
> just Opera's way of doing it.

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:46:52 +0100, Eik <spam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>  When using CSS to make text display as small caps, Opera displays numbers 

>  (possibly other characters?) at the same size as lower-case characters  
>  rather than upper case characters, as you'd expect if the text was being 

>  displayed normally. Other browsers don't do this, so is it a bug or just 

>  Opera's way of doing things?

I'd call it a bug. A smallcaps typeface is merely one in which the
lowercase letters have the same form as the uppercase letters, but
reduced in size. To be strictly accurate "smallcaps" is a misnomer.
The letters are lowercase letters; it's just that the glyphs for those
lowercase letters are similar to the corresponding uppercase glyphs.

-- 
Matthew Winn